Show me where I said that Marx INVENTED the income tax. What is said was that the income tax came to US right straight out of the Communist Manifesto and that is true. There have been many attempts at some form of income taxation going all the way back to ancient Egypt and every single one of those ended very badly for the rulers who imposed them.
The income tax, ANY income tax requires to close a relationship between the tax enforcer and the tax payer. It requires the modern equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition for it’s enforcement. A sales tax can be paid in a manner that keeps the vast majority of tax payers completely anonymous to the tax collector . THAT is how FREE men should pay their taxes! Again quoting Jefferson ...”by reason it has not so direct a relation to the person.”
The income tax is imposed on exactly the WRONG end of the spectrum in that it taxes effort and input. What we put in to the economy vs what we take out of the economy as a sales tax would do.
The income tax, in ANY form, leaves the decision as to exactly what is, or is not, “income” with the government and THAT seemingly small thing is at the root of all the current corruption in Washington!
Pretty good, I would think. After all, if the benefits of citizenship are contingent upon the payment of taxes (and they are), then an anonymous tax will allow for anyone to claim the benefits of citizenship.
If you pay all the taxes of a government, how can you be denied the rights guaranteed by that government? How could you be denied citizenship, and the right to .... oh, let's say ... VOTE.... if you pay the only existing tax that allows a government to exist?
Heck, forget illegal immigrants; Europeans on vacation in DisneyWorld will have the right to vote. Not to mention any Islamist, communist, fascist, or aborigine FROM ANOTHER NATION who pays the U.S. "sales" tax.
Congrats on your back-door amnesty, open-borders, borderless society, nation-killing "sales" tax.